Bible Stories
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- Jim Hatherly
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: A dramatic monologue by Mary, the mother of Jesus, at the foot of the cross. Used as one of a number of ‘character parts’ for a Good Friday service.
Style: Dramatic. Duration: 8min
Actors: 1F
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- Sheila Hamil
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: This drama asks us whether we are ready for our Lord's return to earth. The setting is television's 'The Weakest Link'. Each character has a formica board with an easy wipe pen. The master, dressed like Anne Robinson, poses the questions.
Style: Dramatic. Duration: 10min
Scripture: Mark 13. 24-37
Actors: 1M, 7M/F, 1N
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- Jim Hatherly
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: A monologue of the parable of the laborers in the vineyard.
Style: Dramatic, with light touches. Duration: 10min.
Scripture: Matthew 20: 1-16
Actors: 1M
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- Jim Hatherly
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: A monologue by Nathan, the prophet who confronted King David over his adultery with Bathsheba.
Style: Dramatic. Duration: 12min
Scripture: 2 Samuel 11: 16-12:13a
Actors: 1M
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- Jim Hatherly
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: In this monologue, the father of the two sons in the famous parable speaks.
Style: Dramatic. Duration:12min
Scripture: Luke 15: 1-3, 11-32
Actors: 1M
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- Jim Hatherly
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: In this dramatic monologue, Jeremiah asks why suffering is constant in the world, and attempts to point the way to an answer.
Style: Dramatic. Duration: 12min
Scripture: Jeremiah 8: 18 – 19:1
Actors: 1M
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- Jim Hatherly
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: Abraham’s monologue as he approaches the time he has to sacrifice Isaac. Could be done with the God-voice offstage.
Style: Dramatic. Duration: 8min
Scripture: Genesis 22: 1-14
Actors: 1M, 1VO
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- Jim Hatherly
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: A conversation between the woman healed of bleeding, and the leader of the synagogue whose daughter was brought back to life by Jesus. Some years after the event.
Style: Dramatic. Duration: 12min
Scripture: Matthew 9: 18-26
Actors: 1F, 1M
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- Jim Hatherly
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: A monologue featuring the Woman at the well.
Style: Dramatic. Duration: 12min
Scripture: John 4: 5-42
Actors: 1F
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- Jim Hatherly
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: A conversation between Abraham and God, over His plans, and the covenant He wants to make.
Style: Dramatic, with light touches. Duration: 15min.
Scripture: Genesis 15: 1-12, 17-18
Actors: 1M, 1VO
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- Jim Hatherly
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: When two servants are ordered by their master to invite people to a banquet, they are surprised at the results. Suitable for Thanksgiving.
Style: Dramatic. Duration: 12min.
Scripture: Luke 14: 15-24
Actors: 2M, 3F
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- Jim Hatherly
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: A dramatic monologue based on the Transfiguration story.
Style: Dramatic. Duration: 12min
Scriptures: Mark 9:2-8 / Luke 9: 28-36
Actors: 1M
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- Jim Hatherly
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: A dramatic monologue on the theme of ministry.
Style: Dramatic. Duration: 8min
Actors: 1M
Scripture: Mark 10: 46-52
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- Jim Hatherly
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: John the Baptist in a monologue tells the story of Jesus' baptism.
Style: Dramatic. Duration: 8min
Actors: 1M
Scripture: Matthew 3: 13-17
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- Lyd Heywood
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: Based on a TV game show, similar to "Have I Got News For You", panellists consider the miracles of Jesus.
Style: Light-hearted. Duration: 12min.
Actors: 7M/F
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- Kathy Applebee
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: The Widow of Nain tells how Jesus brought her dead son back to life.
Style: Dramatic. Duration: 2min.
Actors: 1F
Scripture: Luke 7
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- Kathy Applebee
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: On the night Peter is released from prison, as the church gathers to pray, the women in Mary’s kitchen discuss how hard it is to be a mother, especially as the church is persecuted.
Style: Dramatic. Duration: 27min.
Scripture: Acts 12
Actors: 7F
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- Kathy Applebee
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: A skit with choral reading, in which the Widow of Nain tells how Jesus brought her son back from the dead.
Style: Dramatic. Duration: 6-7min
Scriptures: Based on Luke 7, Job 6, Job 14, Psalm 146:5 & 9, Psalm 68:5, Psalm 62:5-6, Deuteronomy 10:17-18.
Actors: 1F, 2M, + Chorus
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- Kathy Applebee
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: A series of 12 monologues by women in the Bible considering the decisions they made. Salome, Delilah, Sapphira, Eve, Job's wife, Sarah, Queen Esther, Bathsheba, the Hebrew midwives Puah and Shiprah, Rahab the prostitute and Ruth ask themselves "What if....", or regretfully look back with "If only I had ...” These are tied together with Joel 3:14 (Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.)
Style: Dramatic. Duration: Approximately 20 minutes.
Actors: 12F (doubling and tripling possible).
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- Kathy Applebee
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: Monologues and dialogues highlighting the mothers in the genealogy of Christ and how nothing is impossible with God - not widowhood, barrenness or foreign status.
Style: Dramatic. Duration: Approximately 20min.
Actors: Roles for up to 25 female and male and characters, doubling and tripling possible.
To read the full script, click on the link below.
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- Jeanette Walters
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: A light-hearted version of the classic story.
Style: Light-hearted. Duration: 15-20min.
Actors: 6M/F, 1+F
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- Fred Lane
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: A dramatic presentation of the Parable of the Sower.
Style: Dramatic. Duration: 6min
Actors: 1N, 4M/F, +C
Scripture: Luke 8:5-9
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- Sheila Hamil
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: An attempt to show the tug of war which goes on inside as we wrestle with decision making. In this case the prodigal son is trying to decide whether to go home or not.
Style: Dramatic. Duration: 5min
Actors: 1N, 2M, 2VO
Scripture: Luke 15:11-32
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- Sheila Hamil
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: This script was written for a Saints Day Ecumenical service and was designed to illustrate the fact that the men and women who brought the gospel to us were ordinary people just like us. Characters come up the aisle and knock at the entrance to the chancel where the “party” is taking place.
Style: Light-hearted. Duration: 6min
Actors: 7M, 2F, 2M/F
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- Andy Lund
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: This was developed for a monthly teenagers‟ drama group consisting of mostly non-church background kids. The challenge was to write a piece for keen young people whose knowledge of the scriptures and of the gospel was very hazy as well as in one case having literacy problems. In the event they pulled it off. The basic thought was the witness of real characters from the Bible who actually physically touched the Lord. It is important to work out some appropriate actions if this is not to become too static.
Style: Dramatic. Duration: 10min
Actors: 4M, 4F, 2M/F, +V (non-speaking)
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- Andy Lund
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: An attempt to give a slightly different slant on a very well-known Biblical account. The underlying theme is that some things are worth being extravagant about.
Style: Dramatic. Duration: 8min
Actors: 2M
Scripture: Luke 7:36-50
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- Andy Lund
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: Another take on the miracle at Cana. Sometimes we tend to forget, it was alcohol that Jesus made - he didn’t turn water into tea. The sketch is meant to be funny but also to provoke thought.
Style: Light-hearted. Duration: 8min
Actors: 2M
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- Andy Lund
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: The news bulletin format is a brilliant way to put across Bible accounts in church and schools without the need to embellish them too much. The events of Pentecost are dramatic in themselves but using this format serves to highlight the effect that the wonderful events of Acts 2 must have had on the community in Jerusalem.
Style: Dramatic/light Duration: 8min
Actors: 3M/F, 1M
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- Andy Lund
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: Jesus pointed out by using the analogy of birds and lilies the futility of worrying about material things. This sketch builds on the same picture in a humorous way.
Style: Light-hearted. Duration: 7min
Actors: 3M/F
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- Jim Hatherly
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: A monologue from the leper healed by Jesus.
Style: Dramatic. Duration: 10min
Actors: 1M
Scripture: Mark 1: 40-45
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- Jim Hatherly
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: Isaac, chief steward in a Pharisee’s house where Jesus is invited to dine, is disturbed by the lack of etiquette displayed by Jesus. A dramatic monologue.
Style: Dramatic. Duration: 10min
Actors: 1M
Scripture: Luke 14: 1, 7-14
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- John Wayne Samples
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: Period piece. King David interacts with the audience as he ponders his past and the battle he is about to face. This is very similar to The Young Shepherd. They can be used in sequence. Purpose: Sets-up a discussion or sermon about David. As a stand-alone, it addresses finding peace in times of anxiety. Key words: David • Battles • Shepherd• Psalms • Comfort • Peace
Style: Dramatic. Duration: 12min
Actors: 1M
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- John Wayne Samples
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: Period piece. The boy David interacts with the audience as he ponders what's going on around him. Complements, or contrasts, the monologue,The Old Shepherd. These two sketches can be used in sequence. Purpose: Sets-up a discussion or sermon about David. As a stand-alone, it addresses finding peace in times of anxiety. Key words: David • Shepherd • Psalms • Comfort • Peace
Style: Dramatic. Duration: 6min
Actors: 1M
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- John McNeil
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: A short one-person monologue, in which Martha tells about the death and resurrection of her brother Lazarus.
Style: Dramatic. Duration: 4min
Actors: 1F
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- Adapted by John Wayne Samples from an adaptation by Mark Twain
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: Humorous and touching rendering of the story of Adam and Eve from creation to Eve's death. From the perspective of their individual "diaries." Purpose: To put some contemporary issues about families and couples into a different context for evaluation and consideration. Key words: Adam • Eve • Love • Family • Marriage • Couples • Growing Old • Garden of Eden • Serpent • Temptations • Death
Style: Light-hearted/dramatic. Duration: 12min
Actors: 1M, 1F
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- Pam Norman
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: Peter is trying to catch another fish with a coin in its mouth, but this time with wrong motives.
Style: Light-hearted. Duration: 7min
Scripture: Matthew 17 vs 24 – 27
Actors: 2M
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- Ian Wallace
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: A sketch retelling the story of Jonah from the perspective of a modern newsroom.
Style: Dramatic/light. Duration: 10min (in two parts)
Actors: 1M, 3M/F
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- Ian Wallace
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: A sketch in 2 parts exploring issues of healing through the story of Naaman.
Style: Dramatic/light. Duration: 10min (in two parts).
Actors: 4M, 2F, 2M/F
Scripture: based around 2 Kings 5.
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- Ian Wallace
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: A sketch illustrating the change that came over Zaccheus when he met Jesus.
Style: Light-hearted. Duration: 10min (in two parts)
Actors: 2M
Scripture: based around Luke 19: 1-10
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- Ian Wallace
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: A sketch performed in 3 parts to explore the resurrection.
Style: Light-hearted. Duration: (designed to be integrated into a normal service)
Actors: 5M, 1M/F
Scripture: based around John 21: 1 - 8
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- Janelle Ponte
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: This is the story of Samuel choosing one of Jesse's sons to be the next King after King Saul. God made it clear through Samuel that he looks upon the heart while man looks on the outward appearance.
Style: Light-hearted. Duration: 12min
Actors: 10M, 1M/F
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- Pam Norman
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: A Narrator struggles to tell to the story of creation to two easily distracted listeners.
Style: Light-hearted. Duration: 8min
Actors: 3M/F
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- Pam Norman
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: In a harried household, a stressed mother's two daughters experience a miracle.
Style: Dramatic. Duration: 7min
Actors: 3F
Scripture: Matthew 14:13-21
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- Pam Norman
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: The story of the transfiguration of Jesus, seen through the eyes of the disciples.
Style: Light-hearted. Duration: 10min
Scripture: Luke 9: 28-34, Mark 9: 2-10
Actors: 6M, 1M/F, 1VO
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- John Steele
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: The story of Paul and Silas's encounter with the fortune-telling slave girl, done as a Western.
Style: Light-hearted Duration: 8min
Actors: 6M, 1F
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- David McLachlan
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: After Jesus:’ baptism the Holy Spirit leads him out into the desert, where he spends 40 days and 40 nights with his Father preparing for his ministry. At the end of that time, the Bible says, he was hungry (no kidding!). The Devil appears, wanting to stick his oar in.
Style: Light-hearted. Duration: 6min
Scripture: Luke 4:1-13
Actors: 2M
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- Pam Norman
- Scripts Since 2007
Style: Comedy/drama. Duration: 10min
Actors: 4M
Scripture: Matthew 8 vs 23-27.
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- Pam Norman
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: The Master of Ceremonies is in big trouble when he runs out of wine at a Cana wedding.
Style: Light-hearted. Duration: 10min
Actors: 3M
Scripture: John 2 v 1-11
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- Pam Norman
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: The blind man, Bartimaeus, is healed by Jesus.
Style: Drama. Duration: 8min
Scripture: Mark 10 vs 46 - 52
Actors: 4M, 2-3M/F.
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- Daniel Carlson
- Scripts Since 2007
Summary: A faithful retelling of the Biblical account of Ruth and Naomi. It is clearly be set in the period, but there are self-conscious and unashamed anachronisms in the set and in the script. This will help remind the audience that the ideas and themes of the story are still relevant today (family ties, loyalty, love and loss, displacement, attitudes towards immigrants, faith and hope).
The leitmotiv of music and songs runs through the play. This comes across clearly in both the prologue and epilogue with passing references in the script itself. The original production included a song by Malcolm Guite specially written for the play. Verses were played at key moments between certain scenes, reinforcing the themes, and a couple of them were even sung by Naomi herself.
I haven't included the song here, but I am sure that if anyone else wanted to use the script, Malcolm would be pleased to provide the music and song, too.
Style: Dramatic. Duration: 60min
Actors: 6+F, 6+M